A very merry half birthday!

 While updating some behind the scenes stuff here I realized that between my last post in 2021 and my 2022 revival tour that we had a major life update here…. We adopted!  A dog, definitely a dog 🤣 

AND we just celebrated his very first half birthday with us 🥳 

So without further ado, may I *officially* introduce you to Fennec!

I had been low key looking online at dogs for a good while but my heart was still completely shattered from my sweet girl going to heaven. Every now and then I would send one to Gray and often did not get much of a reply. While scrolling through the new dogs of the day I came across this fluff ball and texted Gray a link. 

And again heard nothing… until I got home! Out of the blue Gray said "that was a really cute dog you sent me earlier". So I decided to fill out an adoption interest from. This resulted in me bawling my eyes out because it asks about your previous pets and why they’re no longer with you. So I told the the story of my angel dog and her hemangiosarcoma (fuck cancer).

And then we waited, and waited, and waited. We kept looking back at that fluffy dog and I was beginning to think I tanked the adoption application by over sharing. That was until I got a call from the rescue owner. She had been sorting through applications for Austin (his shelter name) when she came across ours. She had also lost a dog to hemangiosarcoma and “had a connection” with us. As soon as we talked we knew we wanted to meet him and planned to make the 1.5 hour trip down. 

Right before we left to go see Fennec for the first time I walked into my girlie room and saw my Kate Spade Chow purse. I should have known that was a good sign that I already have a matching purse to this dog😂

Fennec was listed as a sweet, cuddly, collie/pyrenees mix- so we thought he was going to be on the mellower side. Boy were we wrong!

Immediately upon seeing him, he comes barreling down the yard and then proceeds to jump/punch Gray right in the 🥜s! This dog is going crazy! He’s running laps, playing in water,  jumping higher than our heads- at this point we are both thinking what the heck did we just get into! And yet we're still trying to impress the dog rescue because we want to take him home… and we did! 

The FIRST pic we took of Fen to let everyone know he was coming home!

We changed his name to Fennec because he looks like a fennec fox 🐕 We also did a DNA test on him and found out our wild boy is wild to the core because he’s made up of every crazy, high energy breed! 

Here’s six fast facts about Fennec that we’ve come to learn in the past 6 months:

1. Ball is life. This dog LOVES to play ball 🎾 

2. He’s a talker and he’s got A LOT to say!

3. Fen has “winter nose”, if you look at the first car ride pic of him compared to more recent pics you can see his nose has turned from black to pink 🐽 

4. This dog is also ✨ obsessed ✨ with lasers and lights. If he hears the jingle from the laser pointer keychain it.is.ON.

Look at these post bath crimpies!

5. He gets “crimpies” all over when his fur gets wet 🥹

6. He’s 💯 the goodest boy (even when he’s a little bit naughty 😈) And he puts up with his mom dressing him in Lilly! 

He’s brought so much joy and laughter to our lives that he definitely deserves to have every part of him celebrated, including his first half birthday with us! Happy 1/2 birthday wild boy!